Sunday, November 04, 2007

Judith Freeman's The Long Embrace

Fanatical readers of this blog will recall my earlier mentions of Judith Freeman's new book about Raymond and Cissy Chandler. I bring it up again because a review ran in the San Francisco Chronicle today. A more positive review also appeared in the Los Angeles Times ; check this one quickly before the LA Times pulls it down, as per their practice.

I have two reasons to be especially interested: We routinely read The Big Sleep in my SF State courses, and Freeman gave the Bonnie Cashin Lecture at UCLA Library, now published as "The Real Long Goodbye" (2006). My McWilliams lecture will appear in that same series.

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I teach humanities and American Studies at San Francisco State University. I've written books about the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and Carey McWilliams. I also serve as senior literary advisor to the Bay Area Book Festival and won the National Entertainment Journalism Award of Online Criticism in 2013. Bred and buttered in the East Bay, I now live in San Francisco.